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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Celebrities
- Spears Taken From Home in Ambulance
- Britney Spears was taken from her home by ambulance early Thursday and escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen police officers.
- Psychology Board Investigates Dr. Phil
- TMZ has obtained a copy of a complaint against Dr. Phil which was lodged with the California Board of Psychology, alleging the TV doc was illegally practicing without a license when he paid a visit to one Britney Spears.
- Hollywood Stars, Milla Jovovich is Slim Again
- The actress, model and fashion designer Milla Iovovich famously gained more than 30 kg just for four month of her pregnancy. She was even called 'enormous Milla'. But just two months after the delivery Milla greatly managed to loose weight surprising those around.
- Paris On Harlow Winter
- "It's the coolest name ever," ..."I'm like, 'That is the coolest name, oh my God!' I wouldn't even think she would have thought of that. It's a beautiful name." "Nicole is so into it," she said of the name Harlow. "She always knows what's cool before it happens."
- Olivia Wilde Photo Shoot: Thirteen Never Looked So Good!
- On the set of House, it’s apparent that they can’t make Olivia Wilde look as glamorous and beautiful as she does in these photos.
- German historian likens Cruise speech to Goebbels
- Footage of actor 'recalls notorious speech' Critics say Scientology is anti-constitutional
- Colbert Portrait Hanging in National Portrait Gallery
- The National Portrait Gallery confirmed this morning that Colbert's portrait is in fact now hanging above the bathroom on the 2nd floor, just outside of the America’s Presidents exhibit.
- Miley Cyrus Changes Her Name!
- "Hannah Montana" herself, MILEY CYRUS, has legally changed her name! The teen superstar has changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus, making her nickname, "Miley," official and adding the middle name of her dad, country music star BILLY RAY CYRUS.
- Maxim nominates the Hottest Pregnant Women
- I think Maxim did an amazing job on this 9 women looking fabulous while pregnant!
- Wesley Snipes to Go on Trial in Tax Case
- From 1999 to 2004, the actor Wesley Snipes earned $38 million appearing in more than half a dozen movies, including two sequels to his popular vampire thriller “Blade.” The taxes he paid in the same period? Zero.
- Channing Tatum Unwrapped
- Brad does such an incredible job of recreating the following photos that most of his drawings look like black and white photo copies of the original photos.
- Off the Market! - Couples, George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey
- George Clooney and Matthew McConaughey getting serious? Say it isn't so! How two down-to-earth beauties snagged the Sexiest Boyfriends Alive
- Amy Winehouse wallpaper
- Our Amy Winehouse picture gallery has a great choice of desktop wallpaper images and PSP backgrounds. They're all free and high-quality, with no logos or watermarks, so enjoy!
- Alicia Keys Wallpaper
- Here they are collection of Alicia Keys desktop themes wallpaper. All images are in high quality with 1024×768 pixel. They will fits to your windows vista desktop or Mac OSX background very well.
Economic News
- Overseas Investors Buy Aggressively in U.S
- For much of the world, the United States is now on sale at discount prices.
- Increases in the National Debt Chart
- Graphic chart of increases in the National Debt Chart from 1776 to present
- Will The Truly Efficient Market Please Stand Up?
- "...it sure feels to us as if we're entering 2008 with some of the most pressing issues for the financial markets and real economy we've faced in quite some time. Very important fundamental issues that for now remain very unresolved."
- Study Shows Huge Gap Between Rents and House Prices
- A new study by former and current Federal Reserve economists tracked rents and home prices back to 1960 and found the current rent-price ratio is well below its long-term average. The economists suggest house prices will need to fall considerably over the next five years to be in line with rents.
- Go ahead, egg my Hummer, says Russian
- A Hummer owner in Russia's second city St. Petersburg has given antiglobalists the green light to pelt his oversized vehicle with rotten eggs
- Consumers cut spending, worry more as economy weakens
- Across America, there are growing signs that consumers are worried about the weakening economy, which could slip into recession.
- City of debt shows US housing woe
- The city of Stockton in California is at the centre of the mortgage crisis now sweeping America. Because, with house prices tumbling, more people in Stockton face the repossession of their homes than anywhere else in the US.
- What to do if you’re laid off in 2008 recession
- Here’s some tips I learned...
- The great fall of China
- "China, it turns out, isn't a $10-trillion economy on the brink of catching up with the United States. It is a $6-trillion economy, less than half our size."
- Recession in the US 'has arrived'
- The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch.
- Highly Skilled And Out Of Work
- Long-Term Joblessness Spreads in Middle Class
- Home Prices Post Record Decline, S&P: U.S. Home Prices...
- U.S. home prices fell in October for the 10th consecutive month, posting their largest drop since early 1991, according to a key index
- Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear across world
- “it’s by far the most sophisticated counterfeiting operation in the world,” said James Kolbe, a former congressman from Arizona who oversaw funding for the Secret Service. “We are not certain as to how this is being done or how it’s happening.”
- Bronze sculptures end up being sold for scrap in Vermont
- Thirty stolen bronze sculptures are valued at $1 million - not by the scrap yards where most of them ended up.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
People
- Top 10s On Live Science
- 10 Things You Didn't Know About You
- How Can I Teach My Child to Be a Good and Happy Person?
- Probably the best way is through modeling the things you want them to learn. The second best way is through repetition of your message. But if your actions don’t match your words, children will follow your actions before they follow your words.
- The Waking Up Syndrome
- Few of us are eager to contemplate, let alone truly face, these looming changes. ...as the edges of our familiar reality begin to ravel, more and more people are reacting psychologically. A noticeable pattern of behavior is emerging. We call this pattern the Waking Up Syndrome, and it unfolds in six stages...
- I-Reporter's wedding cake is a full-size likeness of herself
- Chidi Ogbuta of Allen, Texas, gets wedding cake that looks just like her. Bride had longtime fantasy of having a doll modeled after her. Cake fulfilled bride's dream, and took about a week to finish off. Five pictures
- Inventor sacrifices family, savings to help world's poor
- Nunez wonders if he'd get more respect if he hailed from Silicon Valley instead of this tiny Central American nation, where he toils in obscurity at a small private university.
- Best Man Vs. Woman Explanation I've Ever Read
- ...the seemingly senseless misunderstandings that haunt our relationships can in part be explained by the different conversational rules by which men and women play.
- Easy ways to exit awkward situations
- Here are some tips on how to gracefully and painlessly remove yourself from sticky social situations.
- 50 Very Simple Ways to Be Romantic
- Here are a list of 50 things you can do to express your love.
- 50 Things Men Wish You Knew
- Universal guy truths that all women should understand
- Why people believe weird things about money
- Would you rather earn $50,000 a year while other people make $25,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 a year while other people get $250,000?
- The Legend of Cliff Young: The 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won the World’s Toughest Race
- ...this humble old man proved all the critics wrong.Cliff Young, at 61 years of age, participated in 1983’s Sydney to Melbourne race. Considered to be the world’s toughest race...
- How I Taught My Preschooler the Value of a Dollar
- What began as a way to motivate Sam to stop throwing temper tantrums turned into an exercise where he learned that he must work hard to afford expensive things.
- Amazing Facts About Your Body
- Your body is the most amazing machine ever built. Highly adaptive and resistant. No man-built systems can be compared to human body in its complexity and perfection! Here are some amazing facts you may find interesting:
- Unknowing twins marry each other
- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said.
- Resignation as an adult
- To whom it may concern: I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.
- One Red Paperclip
- A man wanted to trade a paperclip for a house. It took him a year, but he did it.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Health News
- Ten Secrets to Being HAPPY!
- The following are my Top 10 Tips to increase happiness in your life:
- India faces bird flu 'disaster'
- Eight districts in the eastern state of West Bengal have been hit by the virus, with dead birds being sold to locals who are said to be "feasting" on cheap chicken.
- Mobiles linked to disturbed sleep
- Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night's sleep, research suggests.
- 10-Fold Life Span Extension Reported
- Biologists have created baker's yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects.
- The 6 Most Unsettling Medication Side Effects
- Behold, six side effects that would suck for anyone unlucky enough to experience them, while being indisputably awesome for any onlooker with a video camera and a YouTube account.
- M.D. Anderson's cancer fight turns to toxic toad venom
- A Houston hospital known for seeking the most advanced cancer therapies that modern science can develop is turning its attention to a centuries-old Chinese treatment: toad venom.
- Cold-Fighting Foods
- chicken soup isn’t the only food that might help. Here’s a daily menu based on experts’ recommendations.
- New Study May Have Found a Way to Reverse Alzheimer's...
- An amazing new study, published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, has documented improvement in the brain of a patient suffering from Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administrating a therapeutic molecule.
- Hospital wrongly records blood group of kidney transplant...
- The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust has come under the scanner after staff wrongly recorded the blood group of a kidney transplant patient. The error was noticed after the patient had received a new kidney of the wrong blood group.
- Tropical disease hits Darwin
- One person has died and three more are in intensive care in a Darwin hospital after contracting the tropical disease melioidosis.
- Seawater spray cures kids colds-Czech researchers
- For parents worried about how to treat children's colds now that some medicines have been called into question, the answer may be a dose of salt water.
- Molecular Nanobots are the world's smallest robots
- While many in the nanotech establishment dismiss molecular nanobots as science fiction many of the recent breakthroughs in nanobiotech point to the emergence of hybrid biomechanical nanomachines
- Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
- The globalization of this Westernized industrial model of poultry production has not only facilitated the spread of deadly viruses like H5N1, but also plays a role in their emergence in the first place.
- Deadly Meal..
- However, there are some food out there, though commonly eaten by us, contains toxic that may cause harm when it's not prepared properly.
- High risk of heart attack in winters
- The time period ranging from December 25 to January 25 is the most dangerous period as far as heart attacks are concerned, the study by a group of the capital's leading doctors revealed.
- Bootstrapper » 102 Ways to Slow Down Aging
- Here are a few tips to help keep you healthy as you age.
- A Drug to End Drug Addiction
- Researchers in labs around the world are now developing vaccines (not a pill, but an injection) to inoculate people against dangerously addictive substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
- Does Your Pet Seem Almost Human? It May Be A Clever Response...
- New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Business News
- The three business models that make Twitter a billion-dollar...
- When Twitter gets to scale here are the very obvious, and wildly lucrative, business models:
- 10 Ways Lazy Stupid Coworkers Can Help Boost Your Career
- Lazy coworkers may seem like a nuisance, but in reality, they offer a number of excellent opportunities to improve your professional life.
- Samsung unveils 31-inch organic screen
- Samsung ...said on Thursday it had developed a 31-inch ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an accelerating worldwide race for organic displays.
- Is Sears Engaging in Criminal Hacking Behavior?
- "Join "My SHC Community" on Sears.com, and the company will install some pretty impressive spyware on your computer:..."
- Big bucks in shaggy dog story
- In a country whose residents spare no expense on their pets, self-service dog washes represent another splurge,
- Recession in the US 'has arrived'
- The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch.
- Maximum impact restaurant greening
- In the US, restaurants are the top electricity consumer among retail businesses. 33% of it. Each restaurant produces an average of 50,000 pounds of waste.
- Advertising: Think Before You Speak
- Just as your funny bumper sticker might offend the guy behind you, your ad may not be saying what you want the target audience to hear
- What's Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008
- There are some big trends I'm really excited about for the web in 2008.
- Brewing Battle: Starbucks vs. McDonald's
- ...McDonald's is planning to capitalize on the public's willingness to pay $4 for a cup of coffee by hiring baristas and dropping espresso machines in 14,000 of their fast-food outlets.
- JPMorgan Predicts 2008 Will Be “Nothing But Net”
- JPMorgan’s Internet analyst Imran Khan and his team released a massive 312-page report this morning titled Nothing But Net that paints a bullish picture for the major Internet stocks ...Some key takeaways:
- As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads
- ...you've just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it? Why, by creating a cornball TV ad ...
- Third Reich to Fortune 500
- Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us
- User registration pages suck
- you must relentlessly streamline the process by which a user joins your site and avoid even this process as long as possible.
- How we work
- We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Humorous
- Gibbon with a death wish Video
- This gibbon found himself who to play with
- CraigsList Cement Blocks Picture
- a very 'colorful' ad
- MacBook Air (Parody) video
- Why should you buy the new MacBook Air? Why the hell not?
- Marine Corps Jokes
- The ultimate response to a Dear John letter...
- The 6 Most Unsettling Medication Side Effects
- Behold, six side effects that would suck for anyone unlucky enough to experience them, while being indisputably awesome for any onlooker with a video camera and a YouTube account.
- You’ve Been Misinformed
- Comic book insight into male-female relationships
- Top 20 Ways to Make a Woman Lose Interest
- "I know, it’s too hard to tell her your relationship has ended (after all, whoever of us can stand women crying?), the best thing you can do is make her lose interest, so she’ll break up with you."
- Watch out! The boyfriend pillow!
- Guys. Warning. Apparently, we're all being replaced.
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Time-Space Paradoxes
- Woman spotted yesterday reading today's newspaper. Nice use of Photoshop to create a recursive paradox and a self-fulfilling prophecy at the same time.
- Top Fifty Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms
- A reader sent me this list of atheist-positive anecdotes that have been seen either on a bumper sticker or a t-shirt. Of course, they are accurate as well as hilarious.
- The 'Kittens! '
- So there I was . .. . just relaxing in front of the T.V. When the kids yelled, “Hey Mom! Come see the kittens.”
- Best Things to Receive After Midnight
- Some stuff is just better when it comes in the middle of the night. And some things only come in the middle of the night. These are the best things received after midnight:
- Do's and don'ts with babies
- Illustrations of how, and especially how NOT, to raise the baby
- Inflatable Car Capsule
- What do you do with a car that probably doesn't have a custom cover? ...the car capsule — a ridiculously ridiculous snow globe sans snow for your car.
- Amy at the Club
- Amy's not great at making friends.
- Just relaxin' in the pool
- Don't try this at home!
- Top Ten Thoughts For 2008
- Top Ten Thoughts For 2008
- Funny Weddings
- Relax, take a deep breath, and turn your mind to the humorous tales that follow...
Environment
- Massive volcano exploded under Antarctic icesheet, study finds
- A powerful volcano erupted under the icesheet of West Antarctica around 2,000 years ago and it might still be active today, a finding that prompts questions about ice loss from the white continent
- Sweden to Study Belching Cows
- A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
- Did Puxnutawney Phil Predict Global Warming?
- Punxsutawney Phil may be smarter than we've given him credit for. In addition to checking out his shadow to forecast the end of winter, he has been ahead of the curve in predicting global warming.
- Huge grotto found under Norwegian glacier
- Large quantities of water from melting ice have created what researchers are calling a "sensational" grotto under one of Norway's major glaciers.
- Brown bears back on the prowl in unusually mild Finnish weather
- Unusually mild and wet January weather has caused hibernating brown bears in Finland to wake up prematurely...
- Ocean floor sensors will warn of failing Gulf Stream
- An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic, from Florida to the Canary Islands, to provide early warning that the Gulf Stream might be failing, an event that would trigger cataclysmic freezing in Britain for decades.
- Water released to save river red gums
- More than four gigalitres of water will be released down the Murray River to protect significant 200-year-old river red gums and wetland areas hit by the drought.
- Winter Bike Commuting -- 10 Tips to Ride Safe
- New cycling equipment, better apparel and a growing awareness of the feasibility of wintertime riding has caused a jump in participation.
- : Shetland Times Online News Feature
- Shetland was once a paradise for sea trout anglers, but today there are very few to be found. In the second of a short series of articles, Paul Bloomer explores the reasons for the massive decline in Shetland's sea trout population.
- My Less than Usual Top Five (plus one) Reasons to be...
- My reasons for being a vegetarian are not quite the usual ones, I think.
- CBC.ca - Video
- Who killed the electric car -- again?
- EU targets could force Britain to build thousands of...
- The British coastline is set for a dramatic increase in wind farms and tidal energy plants as the Government strives to meet a European target for renewable energy.
- Your Favorite Sweet Can Save the World
- As you may already know, chocolate is good for your heart. And it's definitely good for your soul. Now, thanks to a team of researchers and farmers in Brazil, it turns out that chocolate could be good for the planet, too.
- Inside Chernobyl, The Long Shadow of Chernobyl
- Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded, blanketing thousands of square miles with radiation, the catastrophe isn't over.
- Pets
- ...veterinarian Chris Thurgood said forecasts of frequent 40 degree days would gradually deplete local stocks of short-nosed dogs and cats, which typically suffer from respiratory problems and heat stress.
- Texas Is Biggest Carbon Polluter
- Everything's big in Texas — big pickup trucks, big SUVs and the state's big carbon footprint, too.
- Brazil Amazon deforestation soars
- The Brazilian government has announced a huge rise in the rate of Amazon deforestation, months after celebrating its success in achieving a reduction.
- Biofuels 'do more harm than good'
- Biofuels have been hailed as a green alternative to oil by some, but in the US, where there are massive plants converting maize (corn), it has been criticised for making food more expensive and being environmentally unfriendly.
- Mont. high school cancels climate speech
- A climate scientist's speech to high school students was canceled because members of the rural community were concerned the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's message on climate change would be "anti-agriculture
- Exploration Of Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctica's Ice Sheet Begins
- A four-man science team led by British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Dr Andy Smith has begun exploring an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. The lake -- the size of Lake Windermere (UK) -- could yield vital clues to life on Earth, climate change and future sea-level rise.
- Oil Spills, Saving Animals, Protecting the Seas
- Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this article comes with illustrations from a recent oil spill in the Yellow Sea.
- A Picture is Worth…
- The picture, taken by the Press-Office City of Münster (Germany), demonstrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle. It clearly shows how sick our car fetish is.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Energy News
- Year in review: Car tech gets political
- This year saw automotive technology turn into a political hot button.
- ENN: Biofuels: Let's look before we leap
- A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith.
- Energy Independence: How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit
- In 1976 the Danish public got behind an ambitious (and expensive) program to become entirely energy-independent
- EU targets could force Britain to build thousands of wind turbines
- The British coastline is set for a dramatic increase in wind farms and tidal energy plants as the Government strives to meet a European target for renewable energy.
- Wal-Mart to open stores that use less energy
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, said on Tuesday it will open four stores that use 25 percent less energy than its supercenters that were in operation in 2005.
- Kill A Watt EZ
- Concerned about your electricity bill? Not sure what is running your bill up? Use the Kill A Watt to let you see how much power your electronic devices are using.
- SkySail
- Illustrating how SkySail to reduce energy consumption of shipping
- GM says new fuel requirements to add $6,000 per car
- New fuel efficiency requirements imposed by Congress will add, on average, $6,000 to the price of GM vehicles sold in the United States, the automaker's vice chairman and product chief said
- Affordable Hybrid SUV Please
- raise your hand if you’d like to see a more affordable hybrid suv option.
- The Solar Powered Myth
- "...there are some very common misconceptions about solar power (and wind power)"
- How To: Get 100 Gallons Of Heating Oil For Free
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to give you 100 gallons of free heating oil to help survive the cold cruel capitalist winter. The hogshead of liquid warmth is available to anyone enduring a financial hardship who fills out a handy online form.
- Gasoline theft is on the rise
- The price of gas isn't the only thing on the rise as the number of gas thefts has also risen.
- Nanosolar’s Breakthrough - Solar Now Cheaper than Coal
- They [Nanosolar] have successfully created a solar coating that is the most cost-efficient solar energy source ever. ...This makes, for the first time in history, solar power cheaper than burning coal.
- Scientists Use Sunlight to Make Fuel From CO2
- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels like methanol or gasoline. The Sunlight to Petrol, or S2P, project essentially reverses the combustion process, recovering the building blocks of hydrocarbons.
- Biofuels 'do more harm than good'
- Biofuels have been hailed as a green alternative to oil by some, but in the US, where there are massive plants converting maize (corn), it has been criticised for making food more expensive and being environmentally unfriendly.
- The hard truth about ethanol
- The only economical way to make ethanol right now is with corn, which means the burgeoning industry is literally eating away at America's food supply. And most analysts conclude its environmental benefits are questionable.
- Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency?
- Nuclear Engineer Lonnie Johnson, best known for his invention of the super soaker squirt gun, has recently designed a new type of solar energy technology that he says can achieve a conversion efficiency rate of more than 60 percent. Considering that the best solar energy systems today have an efficiency of 30-40 percent, Johnson´s method could cut the cost of solar energy nearly in half.
- Fuel Savings - Making the Best of What You Have Today
- "..one man has taken his gas-guzzling SUV - and rather than trading it on a Prius, has instead tried to make the best use of what he has -- with amazing results
- Road Energy System Siphons Heat From Parking Lots
- ...a Dutch company is siphoning the heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.
- UK seen giving green light to new nuclear plants | Environment | Reuters
- The UK public is divided on the issue, with 44 percent saying companies should have the option of investing in new nuclear and 37 percent disagreeing.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Animal News and Pictures
- Amazing pictures of the cheetah cubs who developed a...
- This extraordinary series of photographs ...show a female cheetah demonstrating to her young the first rules of survival in the wild - how to hunt and kill. (but there's more)
- eagle wallpapers
- Page one of Eagle Pictures wallpapers
- Mauling survivor said he yelled at tiger
- One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old dead told the victim's father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's exhibit...
- Did Puxnutawney Phil Predict Global Warming?
- Punxsutawney Phil may be smarter than we've given him credit for. In addition to checking out his shadow to forecast the end of winter, he has been ahead of the curve in predicting global warming.
- Does Your Pet Seem Almost Human? It May Be A Clever Response To Loneliness
- New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
- Female inmates work with dogs for the disabled
- Female inmates will serve as full time trainers and will be paired with a puppy which they will work with 24 hours a day for at least a year.
- Brown bears back on the prowl in unusually mild Finnish weather
- Unusually mild and wet January weather has caused hibernating brown bears in Finland to wake up prematurely...
- Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs?
- "The largest of the land animals, the dinosaurs, would have been locked in a life-or-death struggle with [insects] for survival."
- Germany's Polar Bear Cub Quandary
- ...the country's tabloid press agonized over the deaths of two tiny Eisbär cubs in a Nuremberg zoo, who were presumably eaten by their inexperienced mother, Vilma, after zookeepers decided not to intervene.
- Minoru Morimoto: What gives you the right to lecture us about whaling? - 22 Jan 2008 - Opinion, Editorial and reader comments from New Zealand and around the World
- As a result of Japan's research programme, we now know more about the status of whale stocks and whale biology than at any time in history and this knowledge increases each year.
- The Sea Lions Huge Yawn
- It's hard work being a sea lion!!!
- Greenpeace harassing whaling fleet
- Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat are trying to stop the Japanese whaling factory ship from refuelling in Antarctic waters, the environment group says.
- Mr. Cat: Cat Wallpaper #30
- Two white friends
- M.D. Anderson's cancer fight turns to toxic toad venom
- A Houston hospital known for seeking the most advanced cancer therapies that modern science can develop is turning its attention to a centuries-old Chinese treatment: toad venom.
- The Top Dog Breeds of 2007 - AKC's Most Popular Dog Breeds of the Year
- At the start of every year, the American Kennel Club tallies up the registrations for the previous year, and gives us a list of the top ten registered dog breeds in the United States.
- Do Monkeys Pay for Sex?
- In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia, researchers found that male primates "paid" for sexual access to females — and that the going rate for such access dwindled as the number of available females went up.
- Platypus swam with the dinosaurs
- Fossil jaws from an ancient platypus found in Victoria have revealed the Australian mammal group is tens of millions of years older than previously thought.
- Sweden to Study Belching Cows
- A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
- Pets
- ...veterinarian Chris Thurgood said forecasts of frequent 40 degree days would gradually deplete local stocks of short-nosed dogs and cats, which typically suffer from respiratory problems and heat stress.
- Butterfly on Flower
- Spring, flowers, butterfly -- This looks like it’s a Male Speyeria callippe callippe Butterfly. It was seen near Little Crater Lake...
- Pictures of the Week
- I came across a wonderfully amusing image of two doe mule deer in the deep snow of the Gunnison Basin east of Gunnison, Colo
- 'Raining Dead Birds,' Resident Says
- Experts say they believe they have identified why dozens of birds have been mysteriously dropping from the sky and dying in yards of west Phoenix residents.
- Black Cat
- Sneaky Black Cat picture
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Offbeat News
- A toilet for two; now you can spend quality time with your loved one
- Enter, the toilet for two.
- Bill Clinton ‘has a dream’, falls asleep during MLK speech
- The campaign is taking its toll on former US president Bill Clinton. He fell asleep yesterday during a ceremony to honour Martin Luther King Jr at a church in New York.
- Man Catches Piles of Fish using a Torch Video
- These guys use flashlights to attract fish and end up getting attacked by flying fish!
- Top 10 Candy Urban Legends!!!
- Countdown of the Top 10 Candy Urban Legends
- Sweden to Study Belching Cows
- A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
- World's 1st All-Glass Undersea Restaurant
- Sitting five meters (16 feet) below the waves of the Indian Ocean, the Ithaa Undersea Restaurant is surrounded by a vibrant coral reef and encased in clear acrylic offering diners 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views.
- Mr Potato Head makes octopus pal
- A giant Pacific octopus living in a Cornish aquarium has formed an unlikely bond with a child's plastic toy.
- 4 Steps To Pick Up Women Like a Genius
- Step by step here’s how he did it.
- The Astonishing History of Vibrators
- The history of vibrators is a strange tale that provides insights into both the history of sex toys, and cultural notions about women's sexuality
- Vidoes: Shank Found Inside Mattel Polly Pocket Toy
- A "shank" (a blade wrapped in electrical tape, to be exact) was found inside a sealed Polly Pocket toy purchased at Walmart.
- PETA Requests Vegetarian Diet in Jail for Cannibalism Suspect
- Sheriff's officials were astounded Thursday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being "involved in any senseless killing" while incarcerated.
- Bodies Fall Out of Sky As Planes Collide
- 'There Were Bodies Falling Out of the Sky' -- at Least 5 Dead As Planes Collide Over California
- Don't send in the clowns
- "We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable."
- FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills
- Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.
- Sleeping Australian run over by train and lives
- A drunken Australian man who took a nap between railway tracks has had a miraculous escape after he was run over by a freight train and received only minor injuries and a bump on the head.
- Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network
- A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz into his own personal train set, triggering chaos and derailing four vehicles in the process. Twelve people were injured in one of the incidents.
- The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa Mystery
- The truth: No one knows for sure exactly how these rocks move - although a few people have come up with some pretty good explanations. The reason why their movement remains a mystery: No one has ever seen them in motion!
- Unknowing twins marry each other
- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said.
- 'Fallen' tree of logs
- Somebody's been busy with that ax.
- 10 Things You Did Not Know You Could Buy On Amazon
- no kidding...
- Hospital wrongly records blood group of kidney transplant patient : Health
- The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust has come under the scanner after staff wrongly recorded the blood group of a kidney transplant patient. The error was noticed after the patient had received a new kidney of the wrong blood group.
- Surgeons 'are better after playing Nintendo Wii'
- Trainee surgeons will soon be practicing operations from the comfort of their sofas after a study found they performed better after playing games on the Nintendo Wii.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Entertainment News and Views
- As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads
- ...you've just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it? Why, by creating a cornball TV ad ...
- The 20 Most Anticipated Films of 2008
- "...I have decided to make my big 2008 preview list with 20 films, just to add a little spice to your life."
- Simpsons obsession.- Kwik e mart!
- More than three dozen pictures
- 'Idol' Stars for Real, or Just Reality TV?
- The last six months have made clear that not all who grace the "Idol" stage go on to find fame and fortune.
- The Best Of Magic: Lance Burton
- Lance Burton with his famous dove act + some good card manipulations
- Web Playgrounds of the Very Young
- ...entertainment companies are greatly accelerating efforts to build virtual worlds for children.
- How Pirates Will Change The Entertainment Industry
- The time has come to address piracy with some real, sustainable solutions that consumers will support.
- 8 Things the ''Cloverfield'' Monster Won't Be
- We don't want to know what the monster is until it pops up on the silver screen, but we thought we'd do the world a favor and present our spoiler-free list of 8 things we know the monster won't be.
- MeeMix Opens Beta To Public, Has Much Work Ahead
- Tel Aviv, Israel based MeeMix...is kicking-off the New Year by moving their taste-predicting Internet radio service from closed to open Beta.
- Critics' Picks: Favorite Books of 2007
- These are the books that are disappointing only because they have to end. They’re the ones we mention to friends. They’re the ones worth taking on vacation, and they are well executed, whatever their genre or subject matter.
- Study Finds $50 Lottery Game Most Popular In Middle-Income Areas
- The Texas Lottery sells the most tickets for its $50 scratch-off game in middle-income neighborhoods and not in the affluent areas originally touted as the game's target.
- 11 Most Creative Advertisements
- "Hi guys, I have a real treat for you today. I have compiled, what are in my opinion, the 11 most creative advertisements."
- 8 Kids Movies That Lied to Us
- ...we say no more! Below, eight movies that are begging to be unmasked for the dangerously optimistic propaganda they really are.
- 8 really fun paper and pencil Math games
- They use paper and pencil, are free, are easy to learn, and teach logical thinking and strategy that involves looking ahead. They’re great fun and they can usually be played by young and old alike.
- Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV
- Good news for TV networks: online ads work. As TV shows continue their lengthy migration onto the web, new research finds that the people watching those shows actually pay more attention to both advertising and content when they watch online.
- Has Video Killed Old Television Habits?
- Making headlines today is Nielsen Online, the Internet measurement firm, reported some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October.The study finds that the audience to sites such as YouTube has nearly doubled in the last year.
- Animal Games for Kids
- Animal Games for Kids
- 'Idol' back as TV's most popular series
- Fox's ''American Idol'' returned as the nation's most popular TV series, but with 4 million fewer viewers than the 2007 season premiere.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Animals
- Mr Potato Head makes octopus pal
- A giant Pacific octopus living in a Cornish aquarium has formed an unlikely bond with a child's plastic toy.
- 480-million-year-old Fossil Sheds Light On 150-year-old...
- Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal's soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre slug-like animals with rows of mineralized armor plates on their backs
- What dogs can teach you about life
- Dogs are man’s best friend, but are they much more than that? Are they man’s best teacher? There are many subtle things that dog’s can teach us about life.
- Dolphin Play Bubble Rings
- How do they do this?
- Scientists Prove that Squirrels are Sneaky
- The study found that squirrels are far more likely to make fake holes when they know they’re being watched by other squirrels. To the researchers, this suggests that the squirrels are aware of other squirrels intention to steal.
- Tiger
- Schonbrunn Zoo, Wien.
- Cute Seal
- Cute Seal looking up through ice hole.
- So I'm a snail and I need to cross the bridge... hmm...
- So I'm a snail and I need to cross the bridge... hmm what should I do?
- things that make you go aahh
- Adorable animal pictures
- This is one mean dog
- Pictured ...is a Caucasian Shepherd Dog. These dogs are popular in Russia and other countries with a need to protect livestock and property. This is truly an amazing animal, he looks more like a small bear than a dog!
- Dog retrieves his best friend - a cat buried in the garden
- A pet dog missed the family’s dead cat so much that he dug up his grave and brought the body back into the house.
- The World’s 5 Most Venomous Species
- There are hundreds of animals that could kill you.
- Bulldog is back on list of Top 10 most popular dogs
- For the first time in 72 years, the bulldog has muscled its way back into the Top 10 most popular breeds in the nation, coming in 10th last year. The No. 1 dog remained the Labrador retriever, for the 17th consecutive year.
- The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World
- For every one of us, there are 1.5 billion bugs. But some of them are so horrifying, just one is too many. Here are five you want to avoid at all costs.
- Pet Rules
- To be posted VERY LOW on the refrigerator door - nose height.
- Blame It On The Voices: Birds vs. Vortex
- Birds vs. Vortex
- Audubon Zoo Desktop Wallpaper
- We took hundreds of photos that day, several of which have been rotating through my collection of desktop wallpapers. You are welcome to them.
- Wallpaper Puppy
- Cute blond puppy wallpaper
- Oil Spills, Saving Animals, Protecting the Seas
- Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this article comes with illustrations from a recent oil spill in the Yellow Sea.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Science and Tech
- Rice researchers make a dark discovery
- A scientist at Rice University has created the darkest material known to man, a carpet of carbon nanotubes that reflects only 0.045 percent of all light shined upon it. That's four times darker than the previously darkest known substance, and more than 100 times darker than the paint on a black Corvette.
- BeatBearing project weds ball bearings, elegance to make jams
- As with most musical things, this truly is better appreciated through video, so do yourself a favor and click on through to see it in action.
- The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science
- "The Algorithm's coming-of-age as the new language of science promises to be the most disruptive scientific development since quantum mechanics."
- Growing New Hearts from Old
- In experiments performed on rats and pigs, the researchers stripped donor hearts of their cells to create scaffolds on which the recipients' cells were grown.
- Virtual Cable Car Navigation - Safe, Simple and Intuitive
- Virtual Cable is a unique display for a car navigation system. The driver sees the Virtual Cable™ image through the windshield.
- Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie
- Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
- New Study May Have Found a Way to Reverse Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes
- An amazing new study, published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, has documented improvement in the brain of a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease within minutes of administrating a therapeutic molecule.
- 5min - What are gravitational waves - Video
- What are gravitational waves
- Cool Water Experiment Video
- This is an experiment with hot water that makes clouds. Cool music and sweet slow motion effects!
- 10-Fold Life Span Extension Reported
- Biologists have created baker's yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects.
- Is the Right Side of the Bed the Wrong One?
- Following a “hot debate” by a sleep scientist, a Feng Shui expert, and a motivational speaker, the final conclusion to the bedside conundrum was that left was right, and right was wrong.
- Destruction: $70,000 Industrial Robot Modded to Fire Flameballs
- There's only one thing better than robots that can destruct things: robots that can destruct things and terrify people by firing flameballs, bowling balls, watermelons and bloody pig entrails at high speed.
- 480-million-year-old Fossil Sheds Light On 150-year-old Paleontological Mystery
- Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal's soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre slug-like animals with rows of mineralized armor plates on their backs
- LightPoints from Schott
- This is a shiny design idea that brings together new technologies and materials in creating a miniature spectacle of light. But as you will see in the pictures below, it's a concept that may be applied at a large scale also.
- Super-wine might boost lifespan
- Would you drink wine made from genetically engineered grapes if it had extra benefits?
- Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency?
- Nuclear Engineer Lonnie Johnson, best known for his invention of the super soaker squirt gun, has recently designed a new type of solar energy technology that he says can achieve a conversion efficiency rate of more than 60 percent. Considering that the best solar energy systems today have an efficiency of 30-40 percent, Johnson´s method could cut the cost of solar energy nearly in half.
- State of US science report shows disturbing trends; challenges
- US schools continue to lag behind internationally in science and math education. On the other hand, the US is the largest, single, R&D-performing nation in the world
- Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data
- Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.
- Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study
- An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer's disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
- Hopes of custom-built organs as scientists create beating heart
- Scientists have created a beating heart in the laboratory in a breakthrough that could allow doctors one day to make a range of organs for transplant almost from scratch.
- Monitor your gadgets energy usage with the Saverclip
- The Saverclip is a gadget shapoed like a tie pin that reads electric usage on any power cable it's clipped onto.
- UK OKs human-animal embryo research
- British authorities ...approved scientists' use of animal eggs to create human stem cells, a ruling that will boost the supply of stem cells for research.
- Charge Your Cellphone Just By Moving
- Well, for those of you who hate the pain of cell-phone charging, there is now a promising new technology that could get rid of the messy problem of cellphone chargers once and for all, AND eliminate 30 to 40 percent of the toxic heavy metals that are currently found in cell-phone batteries.
- Scientists Use Sunlight to Make Fuel From CO2
- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels like methanol or gasoline. The Sunlight to Petrol, or S2P, project essentially reverses the combustion process, recovering the building blocks of hydrocarbons.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Society Culture
- Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie
- Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
- Good health and good fortune - why men find a leggy lady lovelier
- When it comes to snaring the perfect man, the solution could be as simple as slipping on a pair of high heels.
- Texas Is Biggest Carbon Polluter
- Everything's big in Texas -- big pickup trucks, big SUVs and the state's big carbon footprint, too.
- Mont. high school cancels climate speech
- A climate scientist's speech to high school students was canceled because members of the rural community were concerned the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's message on climate change would be "anti-agriculture
- What Do You Get The Last Guy On Earth For His Birthday?
- With this little wonder you can cut down a tree, shoot an arrow at a deer, skin that deer, tell time, and estimate distance, as well as single-handedly rebuild a just and noble human civilization.*
- Advertising: Think Before You Speak
- Just as your funny bumper sticker might offend the guy behind you, your ad may not be saying what you want the target audience to hear
- The Good Wife's Guide Revised
- 1955 Good Wife Guide and updated version
- Talking to Strangers
- I think "don't talk to strangers" is just about the worst possible advice you can give a child. Most people are friendly and helpful, and if a child is in distress, asking the help of a stranger is probably the best possible thing he can do.
- Judge: Stop Handing Out Bibles In School
- A rural Missouri school district's long-standing practice of allowing the distribution of Bibles to grade school students is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
- One Red Paperclip
- A man wanted to trade a paperclip for a house. It took him a year, but he did it.
- Stress...
- Westerners and Americans in particular, keep complaining that their lives are so stressful...
- UK OKs human-animal embryo research
- British authorities ...approved scientists' use of animal eggs to create human stem cells, a ruling that will boost the supply of stem cells for research.
- Now You Can Get Tased for Common Courtesy?
- ...in this day and age, don't be surprised if a bit of common courtesy confuses the heck out of people.
- Researchers plunder social networks
- ...they are being monitored by researchers, who are almost overwhelmed by the amount of data they can gather about tastes, preferences and relationships.
- 8 Kids Movies That Lied to Us
- ...we say no more! Below, eight movies that are begging to be unmasked for the dangerously optimistic propaganda they really are.
- The Yiddish Handbook: 40 Words You Should Know
- This article is a follow up on Ten Yiddish Expressions You Should Know.
- Bill Proposes Database of Offenders to Aid Dating
- Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, the San Francisco Democrat who is the majority whip, introduced a bill last week to create an online database of men and women convicted of domestic violence in California.
- Small house on wheels
- Jay’s home is a 100 square-foot cottage that includes a desk and sitting area, a kitchen, a bathroom, a sleeping loft, and a front porch. Jay’s house is also mounted on wheels
- Brenda Norrell: Apaches rise to defend homelands from Homeland Security
- Apache land owners on the Rio Grande told Homeland Security to halt the seizure of their lands for the US/Mexico border wall, during a national media conference call Monday. It was the same day that a 30-day notice from Homeland Security expired with the threat of land seizures by eminent domain to build the US/Mexico border wall.
- How I Taught My Preschooler the Value of a Dollar
- What began as a way to motivate Sam to stop throwing temper tantrums turned into an exercise where he learned that he must work hard to afford expensive things.
- Harold Bloom: 'What We Are Seeing Is the Fall of America'
- The long-time cultural critic warns that the war in Iraq is destroying the American empire.
- Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
- Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
- Top Fifty Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms
- A reader sent me this list of atheist-positive anecdotes that have been seen either on a bumper sticker or a t-shirt. Of course, they are accurate as well as hilarious.
- The "Google generation" not so hot at Googling, after all
- ...are teens better with technology than older adults? Perhaps, but they also "tend to use much simpler applications and fewer facilities than many imagine."
- Food Challenges for the Super Hungry, Super Competitive or Super Cheap
- ...below are a few places where you can get your meal for free – if you’re up to the challenge of horking down ten percent of your body weight in half an hour.
- 10 Ways Lazy Stupid Coworkers Can Help Boost Your Career
- Lazy coworkers may seem like a nuisance, but in reality, they offer a number of excellent opportunities to improve your professional life.
- Old World Trade Center Ads
- Foreboding ads featuring the World Trade Center
Friday, January 18, 2008
Home
- The Good Wife's Guide Revised
- 1955 Good Wife Guide and updated version
- More Creative Furniture for Cramped Urban Living: 20...
- Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard. In addition to being clever and simply aesthetically awesome, flat pack furniture is also eco-friendly and highly creative.
- 10 Easy Ways for Going Green in the Kitchen
- Save time, money and resources in food preparation and storage
- Bet You Didn't Know This Is How A Sewing Machine Works
- Simple graphic dispells mystery of How A Sewing Machine Works
- Light Emitting Wallpaper
- The light emitting wallpaper is exactly what its names suggests. The interesting thing about it is that when it's not turned [on], it seems to be just a normal wallpaper.
- The Minimalist's Guide to Fighting (and Beating) Clutter Entropy
- Here are my favorite tips for beating clutter entropy, for the minimalists among you.
- Kitchen Timesavers That Speed Up Dinner
- Putting together a great meal has a lot more to do with Getting Things Done than Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
- Craftster.org - Best of 2007
- “the best” [craft] projects of 2007
- Red, White or Green?
- Wine enthusiasts love to discuss the aromas of wine — the raspberries, the leather, the fresh-cut grass — but are we ignoring a prevailing whiff of petroleum? With some wines emitting three times their weight in greenhouse gas, the answer is yes.
- Alternative Cleaners and Recipes
- To get a home that is truly clean, rather than covered in toxic chemicals, try making your own non-toxic cleaners at home.
- Cold-Fighting Foods
- chicken soup isn't the only food that might help. Here's a daily menu based on experts' recommendations.
- LightPoints from Schott
- This is a shiny design idea that brings together new technologies and materials in creating a miniature spectacle of light. But as you will see in the pictures below, it's a concept that may be applied at a large scale also.
- 20 Super Brain Foods
- The foods listed below can help you: concentrate, increase memory, tune sensorimotor skills, keep you motivated, speed up your reaction time, control stress, and even slow down the aging of brain cells!
- Amazing Facts About Chocolate
- Here are 10 interesting facts about chocolate:
- Houses With a View
- Eleven amazing pictures of umm errr... Houses With a View
- Consumer Reports' 10 Ways to be Ripped Off
- According to Consumer Reports latest mailing that I received, here are some items that rip off your money.
- What's on the plate for 2008?
- Eight food trends we're hungry for this year
- These are a few of my favorite things
- Best of the year covering wines, spirits and brews from around the world.
- The unplugged lightbulb
- Interesting light bulb design
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Videos
- Gibbon with a death wish Video
- This gibbon found himself who to play with
- India traffic cam
- Eerily graceful Indian traffic merging
- YouTube rivals: online video shoot out
- PC World Top 10 Video Sharing Sites
- The Best Of Magic: Lance Burton
- Lance Burton with his famous dove act + some good card manipulations
- Funny cat clips
- Video slide show of funny cat pictures
- Girl vs Handgun
- Thank goodness she stuck that tongue back in her mouth or she'd have bit it off.
- How To Track An Email - Video
- This video talks about how to track an email so that you can find out which city the email was sent from.
- Who On Earth Built This?
- These massive arc-shaped features are located at the Geographical Center of four continents. Did humans build them?
- How To Identifying A Song It 'hears' Through The Computer. Video
- Love that song but don't know what it is ? Here is a simple way to identifying a song it 'hears' through my computer.
- Talking Cat Siamese
- Talking cat. Alaska being cheeky!
- Clever Beer Adverts
- Here are some clever and innovative advertisements that make me want to black out.
- Incredible Building In Paris ! Video
- Was the designer drunk, or does it just look that way?
- 737 Emergency Landing
- Controversial commercial featuring the Mediterranean Sea, the beach, and a Boeing 737... crash landing.
- As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads
- ...you've just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it? Why, by creating a cornball TV ad ...
- How They Tow Cars In Japan - Video
- Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds
- Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds
- Sneaky Trick for Accessing the Web
- "If you ever find that you're using a computer where internet use is disabled, here's a trick to access a hidden browser on windows."
- Meet the Disintegrator: 24 barrels of rubber band minigun madness
- You've gotta admire folks who bring their trade to a whole new level, even if that does mean escalating the international arms race between builders of automated, wooden, rubber band miniguns.
- Amy at the Club
- Amy's not great at making friends.
- Baby trained to give evil eye
- Parents have trained baby to "give 'em the evil look" on command.
- Snow Plowing Train
- This train plows through the snow like a champ. Dont you wish you had one of these for your driveway?
- 25 UC Berkeley Courses Available via Free Video
- Today, we want to point out that Berkeley also makes available full-fledged courses via video/webcast.
- Rx7 Four Wheels Fall Off
- Evidently the lug nuts were the wrong size and caused not one, but all 4 tires to fall off.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
How to...
- 4 Tips for Taking Great Baby Pictures - Even If You're...
- An album full of mishaps can quickly be transformed by following these 4 tips...
- How to Find Work That You Love
- Let’s break it down, starting at the end of the title and working our way back to the beginning.
- 45 Things You Can Learn Online for Free!
- Here are a great list of things you can learn online for free any time, any where there’s an Internet connection.
- How to Become a Gmail Jedi Master
- Learn to master Gmail through the use of labels, filters, keyboard shortcuts, vacation autoresponders, and the new IMAP support.
- Bet You Didn’t Know This Is How A Sewing Machine Works
- Simple graphic dispells mystery of How A Sewing Machine Works
- The Four Laws of Simplicity, and How to Apply Them to Life
- I’ve boiled it down to a simple method of Four Laws of Simplicity ...that you can use on any area of your life, and in fact on your life as a whole:
- How Can I Teach My Child to Be a Good and Happy Person?
- Probably the best way is through modeling the things you want them to learn. The second best way is through repetition of your message. But if your actions don’t match your words, children will follow your actions before they follow your words.
- How to surf the web even if Internet Explorer is disabled
- All you have to do is launch a Windows application like Calculator, and then click the Help button. ...[then]...
- The Minimalist’s Guide to Fighting (and Beating) Clutter Entropy
- Here are my favorite tips for beating clutter entropy, for the minimalists among you.
- 10 Efforts Of Men Which Women Appreciate
- Here I have gathered a few points which men can follow to attract her attention; but remember, do NOT think about applying all of these on one female. No two brains are the same.
- My Secret To Maximum Productivity
- Sometimes all it takes is a plunge towards reality to develop a strategy for staying productive.
- Ten Secrets to Being HAPPY!
- The following are my Top 10 Tips to increase happiness in your life:
- Free School of Writing for Children
- Coming Up With Story Ideas
- Tips for Preventing Colds and the Flu: Keeping the Germs Away
- 23 ways to stay healthy year-round
- 7 Essential Tips to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever
- I’d like to share some things I’ve learned about the past two (very great) years, and how you might be able to use them to make this next year your greatest year yet.
- How to Shoot Light Trails
- One of the first subjects that I remember trying to capture as a teenager with my first SLR camera (film) was light trails created by cars on a busy road near my home.
- What dogs can teach you about life
- Dogs are man’s best friend, but are they much more than that? Are they man’s best teacher? There are many subtle things that dog’s can teach us about life.
- How To: Get 100 Gallons Of Heating Oil For Free
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to give you 100 gallons of free heating oil to help survive the cold cruel capitalist winter. The hogshead of liquid warmth is available to anyone enduring a financial hardship who fills out a handy online form.
- 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic
- ...what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? here are some answers.
- How to Make a Powerfull Eye Contact
- Here are the most important tips for a powerful eye contact:
- The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources...
- As we enter 2008, let's take a look back at some of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials that helped those who toiled away on the web everyday.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Relationships News and Views
- Russian couple reunited after 60 years apart
- There, in front of her, was Boris, the man she had fallen in love with and married 60 years earlier. The last time she had seen him was three days after their wedding, when she kissed him goodbye and sent him off to rejoin his Red Army unit.
- Unknowing twins marry each other
- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said.
- 10 Efforts Of Men Which Women Appreciate
- Here I have gathered a few points which men can follow to attract her attention; but remember, do NOT think about applying all of these on one female. No two brains are the same.
- Best Man Vs. Woman Explanation I've Ever Read
- ...the seemingly senseless misunderstandings that haunt our relationships can in part be explained by the different conversational rules by which men and women play.
- You’ve Been Misinformed
- Comic book insight into male-female relationships
- Women Don't Know What A Good Man Is and When They Do Meet One, They Don't Know How To Handle Him
- "I can't understand women."
- Marine Corps Jokes
- The ultimate response to a Dear John letter...
- The Love Mattress: Modern Sleeping Solutions for Couples
- ...the idea of the Love Mattress is simple: A solid unit makes up the middle portion of the bed, with several adjoining strips of foam connected at either end. Between these slats one can drop their shoulder or arm, allowing for a much more comfortable sleeping position while remaining all snuggled up.
- MensHealth - Dating and marriage
- 41 ways to melt a woman`s heart Then you`re on your own
- Top 20 Ways to Make a Woman Lose Interest
- "I know, it’s too hard to tell her your relationship has ended (after all, whoever of us can stand women crying?), the best thing you can do is make her lose interest, so she’ll break up with you."
- Vegas Weddings Hit 10-Year Low
- The number of people tying the knot in Nevada has dropped for the fourth year in a row.
- 50 Very Simple Ways to Be Romantic
- Here are a list of 50 things you can do to express your love.
- 50 Things Men Wish You Knew
- Universal guy truths that all women should understand
- 41 ways to melt a women's heart
- Some interesting tips to improve your relationship. LOL…I was inspired by some of the tips.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Health News
- 7 Essential Tips to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever
- I’d like to share some things I’ve learned about the past two (very great) years, and how you might be able to use them to make this next year your greatest year yet.
- Fun Ways to Live Longer - Have Fun While Aging Healthy and Living Longer
- By understanding how these activities can help you live longer and what to do to get the most benefits, you'll be putting some fun into healthy living.
- Growing New Hearts from Old
- In experiments performed on rats and pigs, the researchers stripped donor hearts of their cells to create scaffolds on which the recipients' cells were grown.
- Consumer Reports’ 10 Ways to be Ripped Off
- According to Consumer Reports latest mailing that I received, here are some items that rip off your money.
- Would you vaccinate your child against cocaine?
- Treatment Online has an interesting piece on the development of a cocaine vaccine. Unlike other drugs that reduce the pleasurable effect of addictive drugs, this is genuinely a vaccine - it persuades the immune system to attack cocaine molecules.
- Super-wine might boost lifespan
- Would you drink wine made from genetically engineered grapes if it had extra benefits?
- My Less than Usual Top Five (plus one) Reasons to be a Vegetarian
- My reasons for being a vegetarian are not quite the usual ones, I think.
- Psychology Today: Dreams: Night School
- Dreaming is so basic to human existence, it's astonishing we don't understand it better. It consumes years of our lives, and no other single activity exerts such a powerful pull on our imaginations.
- 37 Stress Management Tips: Alternatives to Anxiety | Health | Reader's Digest
- For your emotional and bodily benefit, we've consulted experts and come up with 37 easy, natural alternatives to anxiety.
- California's medical marijuana system in 'chaos'
- California's pot shops have admittedly become an easy source of supply for people who just want to get high.
- The Ultimate Weight Loss Guide
- This is the first, last and only weight loss article you will EVER need to read. Only, this is much more than an article. This, my friends, is a guide.
- New Year's Resolutions - Dr. Weil
- Getting healthy need not be overwhelming. Here are six simple, straightforward ways to get on track toward optimum health in the new year.
- researchers find key to stopping cancer in its tracks
- Dr Chris Ward and his team used the ES cells to investigate how some tumours are able to migrate to other parts of the body, which makes the treatment of cancer much more difficult. He believes his work could lead to new treatments and stop 80-90% of cancers in their tracks.
- 10 Celebrity Health Secrets for 10 Days
- By making just one change a day – and taking a cue from celebrities – get on your way to a healthy 2008!
- Brain Exercises for the Weekend
- Harriet Vines, Ph.D., an experienced author and retired college professor, sends us a few fun brain exercises to train our attention and working memory
- Bird Flu Good news at last!
- By adding an agent that stimulates the immune system, it appears that the existing vaccine is effective against various strains of the bird flu virus.
- Universal flu jab works in people
- A single jab that could give lifelong protection against all types of flu has produced promising results in human trials.
- 20 Super Brain Foods
- The foods listed below can help you: concentrate, increase memory, tune sensorimotor skills, keep you motivated, speed up your reaction time, control stress, and even slow down the aging of brain cells!
- Tips for Preventing Colds and the Flu: Keeping the Germs Away
- 23 ways to stay healthy year-round
- Health Effects of Clutter
- “It isn’t a house problem,” he went on. “It’s a person problem. The person needs to fundamentally change their behavior.” Excessive clutter and disorganization are often symptoms of a bigger health problem.
- Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study
- An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
- Key To Avian Flu In Humans Discovered
- MIT researchers have uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian flu strains and aid in the development of vaccines against a deadly flu pandemic.
- Sex Your Way to Better Health
- A Dozen Reasons Why You Should Have Sex Tonight
- 10 Foolproof Tips for Better Sleep
- I didn't want to take medication and this led me to learn several tips and tricks that really helped me to overcome my insomnia.
- Healthy living 'can add 14 years'
- Taking exercise, not drinking too much alcohol, eating enough fruit and vegetables and not smoking can add up to 14 years to your life, a study says.
- The Amazing Benefits of Sleep
- ...when you stop, or pause long enough to think about sleep, and it’s many benefits, you’ll soon realize sleep is just as important to your overall health as exercise, prayer and eating the right food.
- Less Organization, Less Stress?
- The authors suggest that not only can less organization = less stress, but that it can free personal creativity.
Celebrities
- Computer Says Zeta-Jones is the Standard of Beauty
- A computer program developed by two scientists from the University of Technology in Sydney has selected actress Catherine Zeta-Jones as the ‘benchmark’ for beauty.
- The 20 Sexiest Photo Collections of 2007
- ...scandalous pictures of hot celebrities were all the rage in 2007, culminating with the following 20 photo collections.
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- celebrity double take
- The World's First Rollover Blog. Simply roll your mouse over the photos to reveal the hidden, photoshopped photo.
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- Sin City Cast Wallpaper
- Sin City Cast Wallpaper
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- Christina Aguilera blowing a kiss
- Will Smith angry over Hitler comment interpretation
- Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler.
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- Sweeney Todd Wallpaper
- "So I went and saw this. Too much CGI for my tastes, but it was good."
- Mother and Manager Lynne Spears "Sees Her Girls as a Piggy Bank"
- As the shock of Jamie Lynn Spears' teen pregnancy dissipates, questions of responsibility and blame have landed on her mother and manager, Lynne.
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- Aishwarya Rai Wallpaper
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Society Culture News
- LSSU issues annual list of words to be banished
- The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University are giving back to English speakers everywhere with their 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.
- What Life Was Like in 1500
- The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
- Study Shows Huge Gap Between Rents and House Prices
- A new study by former and current Federal Reserve economists tracked rents and home prices back to 1960 and found the current rent-price ratio is well below its long-term average. The economists suggest house prices will need to fall considerably over the next five years to be in line with rents.
- New Poll Shows Many Teens Believe Lying, Violence and Cheating Are Acceptable Behaviors
- A significant percentage of teenagers who are confident in their ability to make ethical decisions regard dishonest and even violent behavior as necessary for success, according to the fifth annual Junior Achievement/Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey
- Top 20 'Whitest' and 'Blackest' Names
- Studies of resumes have found that people with black-sounding names are less likely to get callbacks.
- graffiti street art posters stickers stencils
- Creative graffiti
- The Waking Up Syndrome
- Few of us are eager to contemplate, let alone truly face, these looming changes. ...as the edges of our familiar reality begin to ravel, more and more people are reacting psychologically. A noticeable pattern of behavior is emerging. We call this pattern the Waking Up Syndrome, and it unfolds in six stages...
- What’s Your Consumption Factor?
- The average rates at which people consume resources like oil and metals, and produce wastes like plastics and greenhouse gases, are about 32 times higher in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia than they are in the developing world.
- Seven Things You Must Do to Prepare for An Emergency
- If you want to succeed at any venture, the first step is to have a plan. Here are some steps we are taking to be prepared:
- Hey, you. You're on jury duty
- Faced with a shrunken jury pool, a judge resorted to some sidewalk justice in hopes of filling it out. It worked.